'Great Skate' update

My good buddy Gerry Barnaby left me a voice mail Thursday saying, "Hey, you better check Rosa Parks Circle and make sure there is ice for the Griffins event. I saw about 4 inches of water on it yesterday."

Good call Barnaby. The Great Skate is one of my Top 5 events happening this weekend. Griffins players and coaches and local celebrities skate for 24 hours to raise money for the Griffins Youth Foundation.

So, I immediately e-mailed Randy Cleves, PR guy for the Griffins and said:

"Should we be concerned about the weather? Will there be ice????"

Randy wrote back: "While appearances suggest we might need to change the event to 'The Great Swim,' it is cold enough for ice, which (I've been assured) will be put in sometime in the next day or so. If not, we'll blame Terri DeBoer."

Ha, ha, ha. Did you hear that Terri of WOOD-TV, Channel 8? You better work on that forecast, and I don't want to hear about global warming.